The Billionaires Behind BLM By Charles Taylor

     A great article at Tabletmag, exposing the billionaires behind Black Lives Matter. Why have a group of capitalists backed radical Marxists? Say, wasn’t that what happened in 1917 with the Soviet communist revolution? They never learn, but just have to keep trying, probably being genetically programmed to do so:
  https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/warren-buffett-black-lives-matter

“In July of 2013, the seeds of the most powerful protest movement of the modern era were planted. In a restless climate of nationwide demonstrations touched off by the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, an activist named Alicia Garza uttered the phrase “Black lives matter.” A few months later, in October 2013, Garza took a job with an organization called the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and the nonprofit immediately saw a dramatic increase in its funding from organizations tied to some of the wealthiest people in the world—people with names like Buffett, Soros, and Rockefeller. This spring, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, the movement became a global interest: Some 1.1 million individual donations worth an estimated $33 million flowed into its coffers. Large corporations, especially in Silicon Valley and retail, have been quick to follow suit, with brands like Square, Ubisoft, Google, Spanx, Tom’s Shoes, Lululemon, Nike, and Anastasia Beauty all making six- and seven-figure organizational pledges. The received wisdom, echoing the official mythology around Black Lives Matter Global Network Inc.—co-founded by Garza along with fellow activists Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors—is that BLM is a grassroots movement that rose up organically out of the widespread rage sparked by viral videos of Black American men killed by police officers. According to this account, the political priorities of activists in Brooklyn screaming at cops and calling to defund the police have been fused with those of suburban moms in Peloton T-shirts, hand-painting signs with their kids using the BLM hashtags of large multinational conglomerates—an unusual union of protesters and the corporate boardroom spurred on by nothing more than everyone’s shared outrage over racism.

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Cashless Society: Bank on Chaos! By James Reed

     Forget about the New World Order argument, the main one for the moment in the cashless society issue. Let us suppose that everything is a bowl of cherries. What happens when cards fail? Like this:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8822303/Coles-EFTPOS-machines-Card-payments-stop-working-supermarkets-Australia.html?ito=push-notification&ci=39381&si=12817605

“EFTPOS payments systems appear to be down at Coles supermarkets across across Australia, leaving Friday afternoon shoppers unable to pay at the checkout. Numerous customers trying to stock up on groceries for the weekend have turned to social media to express their frustration, as some reported being turned away. 'Just stopped at Coles people out front saying all Coles stores in Australia closed due to it issues. Wow!' one shopper wrote on Twitter. 'Every Coles in Australia has their registers server down and there’s just lines of people with trolleys. LMAO,' another posted. A customer who tried to go shopping at Byford Coles on the southern outskirts of Perth said: 'Coles is down nationwide, can't get served, everything is down. Doors are now closed.' Another shopper on the east coast of Australia in Woollongong, south of Sydney, posted pictures of shopping trolleys packed with groceries left at the checkout. 'Trolleys full of groceries left in Coles aisles and staff begin unpacking fridge perishable as registers around the nation suffer technical failures,' the woman wrote. It is understood, an IT glitch is responsible for the outage. 'Halfway through a shop and we are told that cash registers at all Coles stores are not working due to IT issues,' a woman posted to Twitter. 'They’re not sure for how long. Off to Woolies.'’

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China Tricked the West into Committing Economic Suicide By James Reed

     Here is some material supporting the line I have been pushing in this blog, that the Chinese communists used Covid-19 as a weapon against the West, and the globalists worked with them in the quest to eliminate our freedoms, democracy, and rule of law, you name it.
  https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/coronavirus-theory-that-chinese-propaganda-encouraged-western-nations-to-lock-down/news-story/19c3e85f1f3088e5b06f2fb97ee50629

“Did China trick the world into committing economic suicide? As the global community continues to grapple with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic – and the economic catastrophe caused by the associated “lockdowns” imposed by governments around the world – a chilling new theory has emerged. It goes like this – China, in an enormous disinformation campaign spread via social media and through compromised voices in Western politics, science and medicine, aggressively pushed for other nations to follow its lead, with the goal of intentionally destroying their economies. That’s according to Michael Senger, a lawyer and researcher based in Atlanta, Georgia. In an article for Tablet Magazine, Senger has laid out a disturbing timeline of evidence that, if true, hints at what could be the most effective and devastating psy-op ever carried out by a world government. “By promoting fraudulent data, aggressively deploying disinformation, and flexing its institutional clout, Beijing transformed the snake oil of lockdowns into ‘science’, crippling rival economies, expanding its influence and sowing authoritarian values,” Senger writes on Twitter.”

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A Loan, but We Destroy the Economy? Sure, Where Do We Sign? By James Reed

     The (New)  World (Order) Bank had offered Belarus a loan of $ 940 million to lockdown the economy, but the prime minister told them to go jump, unlike many other small nations, also being coerced.
   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/world-bank-offered-belarus-940-million-coronavirus-loan-locked-destroyed-economy/

“The World Bank offered Belarus a $940 million coronavirus loan in June. But the conditions included that they lock down and destroy their economy. The World Bank wanted him to lock down like Italy did in March and April. The Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko, considered the last tyrant in Europe, turned down the offer. Then he went public with the details. It makes you wonder how often this happens to less prosperous nations.” 

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The Corruption of the Universities By James Reed

     We have covered the intellectual and academic corruption of the universities, but the financial aspects are equally as worrying. Thus, we have situations across the country of some senor administrators getting annual salaries of greater than $ 1 million, white junior staff are being laid off, or taking a salary cut, as the Australian universities have come to be funded largely by money from full fee-paying international students. Go figure.
  https://www.michaelwest.com.au/australian-university-profits/?mc_cid=8b9be084c4&mc_eid=a349a0a63a

“The rampant commercialisation of Australia’s public universities has been laid bare as they engage in behaviour more expected of multinationals than learned institutions. While huge numbers of teaching staff have been casualised, the sector is reporting bumper profits and eyewatering corporate salaries. Union representatives are concerned that wage theft by universities from their increasingly casual workforce could reach into all of Australia’s 39 public universities. Michael West Media has learned that early results of a survey issued by the National Tertiary Education Union to its members show that the practice is effectively universal in the sector. Alison Barnes, National President of the National Tertiary Education Union told Michael West Media. “We have always known it was going on but because of the casual and insecure nature of employment – that precarity works against reporting of underpayment.” So far, least 10 Australian universities have admitted to underpaying casual staff, having to audit payments to staff or to being in industrial disputes with staff. The 10 universities also collectively posted $1.12 billion in profits for the 2019 calendar year, a 46% rise compared with 2018. Last week, the ABC revealed the widespread underpayment of casual staff across the public university sector, a practice unions describe as wage theft.

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Is Australian Cash an Endangered Species? By James Reed

     Thank God for the overseas media, so we can learn what is going on in Australia. Take cash for example:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-08-20-coronavirus-causes-australia-bankss-shut-down-branches.html

“The Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in Australia has caused the closure of thousands of ATMs and hundreds of bank branches in the country. At least 2,150 terminals have been removed in the recent June quarter alone. This has brought the number of ATM terminals across the country to just 25,720 – their lowest level in 12 years – according to the Australian Payments Network. According to Tony Richards, head of payments policy at the Reserve Bank of Australia, most of the ATM closures were in metropolitan areas, in locations such as shopping centers. In addition, Australia’s “Big Four” banks – ANZ, Commonwealth, NAB and Westpac – have also shut down a combined 175 branches over the past 12 months. Of these, ANZ has the highest with 68 branches closed, followed by Commonwealth with 44. Meanwhile, Westpac and NAB have shut down 36 and 27 branches, respectively. The widespread closures have divided public opinion and, more importantly, left 2.5 million elderly Australians who don’t do online banking with no way to access their money.

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Bank Bail-Ins and Stealing Your Money! By James Reed

     Malcolm Roberts, One Nation Senator for Queensland, has warned us of the danger of bank bail-ins, where if the banks get in dire financial straits, they take your deposits. To counter this, he is championing the Banking Amendment (Deposits) Bill 2020. So far there have been over 200 submissions to the Economics Committee since June 2020, most positive, although APRA and the Treasury think that it is unnecessary. But, in his own submission, Senator Roberts argues that banks in a financial crisis can and will gobble up the savings of depositors. So, here is his submission, and you can help by passing the information on.  
  https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/senator-roberts-makes-submission-to-bank-bail-in-inquiry/

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There Goes the Dollar By James Seed

     I typed “Seed” instead of “Reed” but who cares? There goes the US dollar. That is another nail in the coffin of the US, and when the US goes down, Australia will not even be a snack. Think about it.
  https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/China-and-Russia-ditch-dollar-in-move-toward-financial-alliance

“Russia and China are partnering to reduce their dependence on the dollar -- a development some experts say could lead to a "financial alliance" between them. “In the first quarter of 2020, the dollar's share of trade between Russia and China fell below 50% for the first time on record, according to recent data from Russia's Central Bank and Federal Customs Service. The greenback was used for only 46% of settlements between the two countries. At the same time, the euro made up an all-time high of 30%, while their national currencies accounted for 24%, also a new high. Russia and China have drastically cut their use of the dollar in bilateral trade over the past several years. As late as 2015, approximately 90% of bilateral transactions were conducted in dollars. Following the outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war and a concerted push by both Moscow and Beijing to move away from the dollar, however, the figure had dropped to 51% by 2019. Alexey Maslov, director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the Nikkei Asian Review that the Russia-China "dedollarization" was approaching a "breakthrough moment" that could elevate their relationship to a de facto alliance. "The collaboration between Russia and China in the financial sphere tells us that they are finally finding the parameters for a new alliance with each other," he said. "Many expected that this would be a military alliance or a trading alliance, but now the alliance is moving more in the banking and financial direction, and that is what can guarantee independence for both countries." Dedollarization has been a priority for Russia and China since 2014, when they began expanding economic cooperation following Moscow's estrangement from the West over its annexation of Crimea. Replacing the dollar in trade settlements became a necessity to sidestep U.S. sanctions against Russia.

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Notes From Around 30-7-2020 D.B.Smith - Why I Fight

     The following is a passage from J.T. (Jack) Lang’s book“Why I Fight. Jack Lang was a Labour Premier of NSW in the 1930’s. The same Labour Party that gave us the Commonwealth Bank was changing and Jack Lang’s words showed he was not one of the new order that brought down that same bank, and indeed the final sale of the bank that financed our WW1 effort at no cost to the nation, was to be enacted by one of the new white collar labour breed, one Paul Keating. Now we have no one in parliament who would save our nation through our own national bank, they are puppets all to the international bankers who control the world with DEBT finance.
Today there is there is no voice of opposition, all are silenced by the smear, either the “funny money” label, or “the extreme right wing” or even the “anti- semetic” label are swung into action in the media to denigrate and ostracise any who would oppose their program of world control. The churches pat themselves on the back for their ambulance aid work but none question what DEBT is as they are all beholden to the banks to some degree today. As Jeremy Lee said in his book Australia 2000 What Will We Tell Our Children, “It was not always so”. If I am wrong on this point I would love to be made aware of any statements from a leading Church, questioning why we have poverty amid the plenty of this nation of ours, let alone a Christ who would dare throw the money changers out of the temple of human lives. Jack Lang chose to stand against the changes he saw and was expelled from the Labour party.  Are we standing against those “ugly Factors” that are making a mockery of Divine bounty, or will it be left to our children to break the chains that bind them. This world is in a revolutionary state and the Marxists of all persuasions are exploiting the situation to their advantage, ie to divide the community to such a degree as we see in the USA right now. Only a directive from a President to use live ammunition will dispel the riots. Do not be fooled, Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with the death /murder of George Floyd, but was the result of well -prepared and well organised ground for rebellion against political order, the genesis of things to come. Read Solzhenitsyn. Lockdown is not “the new norm” but the thin edge of totalitarian authority.

WHY I FIGHT.     

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Coin Shortages By James Reed

     There is apparently a coin shortage in the US, which is no doubt part of the conspiracy to create a cashless society. The new Black Death was part of this too, as physical money became too dirty to touch. I imagine that down the track, given the enormous New World Order success of this pandemic, the next one will eliminate cash forever.
  https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/kroger-stops-giving-customers-change-nationwide-coin-shortage-worsens

“Last month, the Federal Reserve warned coin disruptions were coming due to the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown of the economy. Here's an excerpt of the warning: "The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted the supply chain and normal circulation patterns for U.S. coin. "In the past few months, coin deposits from depository institutions to the Federal Reserve have declined significantly, and the U.S. Mint's production of the coin also decreased due to measures put in place to protect its employees." In late June, supermarket chain Meijer Inc. told customers at 250 stores that "self-checkout registers" will only accept "electronic payment only" due to a "national coin shortage."

Start the Day, the Economist Way! By James Reed

     A great poem by social creditor C. J. Dennis, a poem sometimes quoted, but it should be put on everyone’s fridge door, next to the shopping and to-do list:
  https://cairnsnews.org/2020/07/29/economists-are-very-learned-blokes/

Another Economic Riddle
by C.J.Dennis

I venerate economists
As very learned blokes,
But when in paradox they speak
Their meaning oft I vainly seek,
Suspecting subtle jokes.
They say the whole world’s down and out;
But here’s what I can’t see:
If every land, beyond all doubt,
In all the world is up the spout –
Then who’s the mortgagee?
Do we owe money in the moon,
Or some celestial land?
Or have we creditors in Mars,
Or other fixed and unfixed stars,
Who hold our notes of hand?
If not, why all the fuss and fret?
I’ve conned it o’er and o’er,
And find no clear solution yet.
If all the earth is deep in debt,
Who is the creditor?
When men go into bankruptcy
The case is plain as day:
What is not in the dear wife’s name
Grim creditors will promptly claim,
And assets melt away.
But when a whole wide world’s in soak
And cannot raise the tin,
Here’s where I half suspect a joke:
When all the earth goes stony broke,
Who puts the bailiffs in?

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Hey Uncle George, Where Does all the Money Come From? By Michael Ferguson

     The question needs serious exploration; where does all the money that George Soros splashers around come from? It cannot be his small change, because there is now so much of it. Witness the latest:
  https://gellerreport.com/2020/07/soros-millions-blm.html/
  https://americanactionnews.com/politics/soros-funnels-another-quarter-billion-into-black-lives-matter-rs-mb/

“With America burning and teetering on the brink of socialism leftist Hungarian billionaire George Soros announced he was donating an additional $220 million to the “Black Lives Matter movement,” with much of the money going into efforts to control 2020 voting systems. “This is the time for urgent and bold action to address racial injustice in America,” said Alex Soros, George Soros’ son and deputy chair of the Soros family’s “Open Society Foundations.” “These investments will empower proven leaders in the Black community to reimagine policing, end mass incarceration, and eliminate the barriers to opportunity that have been the source of inequity for too long,” said Alex Soros. Soros’ group blamed America’s founding for racial injustice and vowed to stop it. “We recognize that the struggle to dismantle systemic racism is an ongoing one; it has existed from the dawn of the republic to the present day, and is embedded in every level of government and in our penal and justice systems,” said Open Society Foundations President Patrick Gaspard. “But the power surge of people who have taken to the streets to demand that this nation do better—people of all ages, from all backgrounds and in every corner of this country—gives hope to us all,” said Gaspard. “We are honored to be able to carry on the vital work of fighting for rights, dignity, and equity for oppressed people the world over started by our founder and chair, George Soros,” Gaspard said. While $150 million of the funds are part of a five-year plan, Open Society Foundations says a $70 million will be immediately spent on plans for “ongoing efforts to fight voter suppression and disinformation and ensure safe and secure elections in the midst of the pandemic.” This likely refers to vote-by-mail programs and overturning ballot security laws.”

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Defund the Universities: A Good Start By James Reed

     I like to think I got the “close down the universities” movement going over a decade ago. Now, thinkers are writing about how to do this, such as by defunding, which is an excellent idea. Simply starve the cancer.
  https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2020/07/20/the-crisis-of-the-american-university/

“The university today is all about insuring control of thought and speech. They want to rewrite the past, and they control the present by indoctrinating students, rewarding those who incentives and disincentives, and idealizing people who embody their values, thus providing role models for students. This guarantees that their millions of student “products” entering critical professions like teaching and journalism will control the future.

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The Covid-1984 Recession and the Coming Apocalypse By James Reed

     This 4 Corners (how many corners do they think there are?) segment is worth watching because it tells us what is coming right now economically due to the Corona freak-out. Businesses just being smashed, crushed to dust. Sure, there is there whinging about not having backpackers to pick fruit, the usual immigration bs, which seems to me to be a weak foundation to build upon, but that is only a drop in the ocean. Here is the deepest recession since the big one of 1930s, and it would be worse if business that were dead were not permitted to continue trading, as zombies. Businesses going broke, maybe 500,000, means people don’t have jobs, and when the dole is slashed, get ready for social chaos and disaster, and home invasions for goods, right out into the green leafy suburbs. No-one will be safe. After a while people will be crying out for the Chinese new World Order. Please enslave me! Let me have my consumer goodies back! I don’t need things like freedom! And so on. Just see if Uncle James is right on this one.
  https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/the-job-ahead:-surviving-australia%E2%80%99s-covid-19/12711470
  https://au.news.yahoo.com/covid-19-depression-explained-021707059.html

     Rudolph Zinn published back in 2010 a fascinating book on home invasions in South Africa, Home Invasion, which we can see as a prelude to what is coming right across the West:
  https://www.amazon.com.au/Home-Invasioin-Dr-Rudolph-Zinn-ebook/dp/B00BW76DK6 

The Dark Shadow of George Soros By Peter Bennett

     Here is the video that YouTubular removed of   Antifa chanting "ANTIFA chant "Soros, Soros, where's our Money?". It was saved by this guy at his site, all full of interesting material. For $ 15 an hour, just to Hulk smash … some anarchist in the past had to do it for free, and these sons and daughters of white urban elites are complaining! And why hasn’t George paid his feral puppies? That is not the way to generate loyalty is it?
  http://mailstar.net/Antifa-Soros-Where-is-Money.mp4
  https://conservativepost.com/antifa-terrorists-in-boston-chant-george-soros-wheres-our-money/
  https://summit.news/2020/07/14/soros-foundation-announces-it-is-doubling-down-on-funding-black-led-justice-organizations/
  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/george-soros-racial-justice-organizations.html
  https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-society-foundations-announce-220-million-for-building-power-in-black-communities
  https://gellerreport.com/2020/07/george-soross-foundation-is-spending-220-million-to-dismantle-systemic-racism-in-u-s.html/

     America is now experiencing its own “colour revolution”:
  http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO16Jun2020.php

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Who Funds George Soros? By Peter Ewer

     Just a thought, it seems all the dissent sites talk about George Soros as if he has an endless source of money. Tens of millions to this Leftist group, then the same to another. It must add up. Wikipedia says that he is worth US $ 8.3, but that would not be in a bank deposit, no doubt it would be tied up in all sorts of clever financial ways that would not make it super-liquid. So, surely Soros must be the front man, the public face of some that lurk in the shadows. It would therefore be interesting to find out who is backing Soros, if even he knows. And, why is there never any money for our side of politics, everything having to be done by chook raffles and the like? Can a war really be won like that? Or, is that simply the nature of the Beast, and I mean Beast, Biblically.
  https://www.amren.com/news/2020/07/george-soros-pouring-220-million-into-racial-justice-movement/
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/13/george-soros-pouring-220-million-into-racial-justice-movement/

“Progressive billionaire George Soros’s philanthropic organization — Open Society Foundations — announced Monday that it will donate $220 million to groups focused on “racial justice.” The organization plans on investigating $150 million alone into five-year grants for organizations aimed at achieving equal statistical outcomes between demographic groups in economics and criminal justice. The other $70 million is said to be going toward “more immediate efforts to advance racial justice.” Groups expected to receive funds include Black Voters Matter and Repairers of the Breach. “It is inspiring and powerful to experience this transformational moment in the racial justice movement,” said Open Society Foundations president Patrick Gaspard. “We are honored to be able to carry on the vital work of fighting for rights, dignity, and equity for oppressed people the world over started by our founder and chair, George Soros.”

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California is Morally Bankrupt, Soon Financially Bankrupt By Chris Knight

     Here is some good news, because in the end, all of this pc woke madness needs to be funded, and if the funds are cut, it all collapses. Bring it on!
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-07-13-california-now-less-than-90-days-away-from-total-financial-collapse.html

“The State of California is now less than 90 days away from a financial collapse that can only be averted by acquiring new sources of loans or dramatically slashing government-funded services in health care, pensions, welfare and education. The cracks of financial insolvency are starting to show, and Newsom has no plan that doesn’t lead California into anarchy and destitution. In a desperate effort to delay the financial collapse, Newsom has ordered the state’s EDD to delay unemployment checks for as many months as it takes to preserve the state’s rapidly-dwindling funds. The Mercury News reports that nearly 2 million Californians have yet to receive unemployment checks covering the first three months of the coronavirus lockdowns, which began in mid-March:

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Reparations for Blacks to Bankrupt the Very Universe By Chris Knight

     First, we need to know what a quadrillion is.  It is a thousand million millions:

1,000 x 1,000,000 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000,000,000 which is a 1 followed by 15 zeros. There are thought to be about quadrillion ants on Earth for a comparison. Now consider this bit of metaphysical nonsense:
  https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/quadrillion.html#:~:text=A%20thousand%20million%20millions.&text=Below%20is%20a%20cube%20made,is%20worth%20a%20quadrillion%20dollars
  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/mayors-back-reparations-could-cost-6-2-quadrillion-151m-per-descendant

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Biden Vows to End Capitalism; Full on Racial Socialism By Chris Knight (Florida)

     Biden is moving increasingly towards the Left, indicating that the Democrats are in full-on socialist mode. The ultra-woke female running mate, who will soon become president once he is uncorked as senile, will push America over a cliff, and Australia will go with it.
  https://conservativedailypost.com/biden-vows-to-end-shareholder-capitalism-that-ignores-racial-responsibility/?utm_source=Push&utm_campaign=OneSignal&utm_term=12_July-1

“Yesterday, democrat hopeful Joe Biden delivered a speech in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, and announced his ‘economic’ plan for the United States. The politician, who’s held office for nearly five decades, explained that suddenly ‘now’ he has answers that he never had before, and this time, he will end “shareholder capitalism.” “It’s way past time to put the end to the era of shareholder capitalism. The idea the only responsibility a corporation has is its shareholders — that is simply not true, it’s an absolute farce. They have a responsibility to their workers, their community, to their country,” Biden bafflingly explained. In place of “shareholder capitalism,” Biden proposed a more inclusive system built on the power of labor unions and on “black, brown, and Native American” communities that he said had been left out of economic prosperity. Much of his speech was devoted to criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus. Biden claimed (falsely) that Trump told Americans to “drink bleach” to fight the disease. Biden, addressing a small, socially-distant group of workers and journalists at the McGregor Industries metal works facility, said that he would raise the corporate tax rate to 28% (from 21%, where Trump lowered it in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017).”

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The Crisis has Been Very Good for the Super-Capitalists By James Reed

     Of course, they can be generous in throwing money at BLM since the super-capitalists have benefitted by the corona madness eliminating many small businesses.
  https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/worlds-richest-billionaires-risk-turning-22288193

“The wealth of the top 1% has soared during lockdown, but the booming fortunes of tech billionaires like Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos reveal deep faultlines in society. The coronavirus pandemic has directly cost some 500,000 lives. But the damage it has wreaked on the world economy will cost many more. In America, the unemployment rate in April was 14.7%, up from just 4.4% in March. In real terms that’s at least 44 million people laid off. Between March 29 and April 4 alone, 6.6 million Americans registered as unemployed. More than 27 million Americans stand to lose their employer-provided healthcare coverage as a result of the pandemic, at a time when they might need it most. But it’s not affecting all Americans equally. The wealth of the very richest has soared during the pandemic. America's top five billionaires – Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison – enjoyed a 26% surge in their wealth since the outbreak began. Between them they’ve gained over a hundred billion dollars. Amazon’s business has been booming with most of America cooped up at home and according to figures from Forbes, boss Jeff Bezos is worth 38.6% more – an extra $43.7 billion – between March 18 and June 17.

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